[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16464]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            FISCAL INSANITY

  (Mr. STEWART asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEWART. Mr. Speaker, I am discouraged to stand here and to 
announce a milestone that we reached recently, a very discouraging 
milestone, and that was in the last few days we have now surpassed $18 
trillion in debt. If you want to know how much money that is, take 
every American taxpayer, from the young man who just got his first job 
to every mother and father who are struggling to take care of their 
families, and give them a bill for $150,000. It is simply 
unsustainable.
  If we continue down this current path, we will commit fiscal national 
suicide by our spending and our debt. Remember, a nation that is 
bankrupt cannot provide for the security of its people, a nation that 
is bankrupt cannot provide for the needy among them, and a nation that 
is bankrupt cannot provide for the children in the next generation.
  Now is the time to restore fiscal sanity. We must have the courage to 
reclaim the American Dream. Tax reform, entitlement reform, and a 
balanced budget--we must have the courage to make these a reality. But 
we can fix this. We must fix this. I hope we will have the courage to 
do this, even if it is hard.

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